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I very much agree with you philosophy (doing is learning). I like how you share that we never stop learning. I try and demonstrate this to my students everyday. I'm constantly trying new things and trying to improve my skills constantly.

I know that you believe that this is your philosophy of learning. Do you do this every day in school? Or do you just play the game too and then make yourself feel better on blogs by writing this kind of entry?

I really couldn't have put it better myself.. indeed if I did do this exercise of expressing my beliefs in what learning really is and should be... then it would be very similar to this. Well done for stating what many of us believe.

I would say a philosophy is what you believe and no one is perfect in their practice. I would say this is what I attempt to do in my classroom but do not do all of these things daily.

Sometimes there are things that are beyond my control such as the schedule of my school day. For example I would get rid of separate classes and have integrated classes, but I do not control this. What I do do is talk about all subjects in my technology class. Students often say to me: "Why are we talking about this? This is not (insert class)."

I do not use textbooks and my class is project-based learning using both technology and hands-on tools. You can see some of our work here

So I will not arrogantly state that I am perfect in following all of my ideals, but this is my view of ideal learning and it is what I strive to make happen in my classroom. It is also how I evaluate myself and what happens in my classroom.

Thanks Mike for sharing. I agree, textbooks are a crutch, and I find myself using them that way when I use them. And I agree with your followup: philosophy and reality don't always match; but philosophy should be the drive and moving force behind the reality in the classroom. -DG, bmsscienceguy

Sometimes there are components that occur to be previous my look after along the lines of the regime of my college day. for example I would remove separate courses and have integrated classes What can we do when we have much free time? How about to play the online games? When we talk about the online game, we have to talk about the WOW Gold? Because the WOW is the world's most famous online game, every one knows that we have to get the Cheap WOW Gold to save money !

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